Singh, who joined Ola in February this year as senior vice president design, is considered among the top design talent in the country with companies including Flipkart and others chasing him with offers.Pankaj Mishra | Updated: August 31, 2015, 13:45 IST

Sunit Singh, head of design at Ola Cabs, has quit, and is likely to join Cleartrip co-founder Hrush Bhatt in launching a new design startup soon, according to people familiar with the development.

Singh, who joined Ola in February this year as senior vice president design, is considered among the top design talent in the country with companies including Flipkart and others chasing him with offers.

"He (Sunit) is clearly somebody who fills the crucial top design talent gap in the ecosystem," said an executive at a firm which recently tried to hire him.

At online travel site Cleartrip, Singh spent over four years leading the user experience design overall, and helped the company transition to mobile app. Before that, he worked as principal UX designer at Yahoo. Singh is a JJ School of Arts graduate with a post graduate in Communication Design from Industrial Design Centre at IIT Mumbai.

An Ola spokesperson had not responded to the ETtech query sent on Monday at the time of publishing this. We will update after hearing from them.